If you wanted to slip a brand new MacBook Pro under the tree this year, you missed it! While we still thought, a few months ago, that the manufacturer was going to unveil machines equipped with M2 Pro and M2 Max chips this year, it will not be. To discover the brand’s new computers, we will have to wait until early 2023.
No new Macs in 2022
According to Mark Gurman, a journalist always well informed about Apple’s plans, the next-generation 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros will be released in March 2023. These should be equipped with the M2 Pro and M2 Max chips, the versions on steroids of the M2 chip that Apple made official this year. The MacBook Pro M1s will therefore play extra time before being replaced in a few months.
If the release of new machines in March has not yet been confirmed by Apple (although this date be the subject of many concordant rumors), the absence of novelties for this end of the year 2022 was by Tim Cook himself. When publishing the company’s quarterly results, Tim Cook clarified that the product range was “set” for the end of 2022. It is obviously made up of the new iPhone 14, iPad Pro M2 and MacBooks. Air and Pro M2.
A year 2023 under the sign of the M2 chip
The future MacBook Pro M2 Pro / Max should not change design, but simply adopt the new Apple chips with versions equipped with 12 CPU cores and 38 GPU cores. A nice leap forward from the current M2 chip which has eight CPU cores and ten GPU cores. Note that a Mac Pro with an M2 “Extreme” chip would also be in the works. The latter would ship 24 CPU cores, 76 GPU cores and 192 GB of RAM.
By the admission of Apple’s CFO, the coming quarter is likely to be disappointing for Mac sales “compared to last year when we launched our MacBook Pro with M1 chip“. That said, the manufacturer has a more than comfortable cushion to soften the fall, since it is the only one to have increased sales among the top five global PC manufacturers.